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On Tuesday, world-renowned composer and conductor Eímear Noone was awarded an honorary doctorate by NUI Galway. The award-winning artist has created scores for 26 film and video game titles. She was conferred a Doctor of Music honoris causa at the university’s summer conferring.

In the early years of the 16th century, Stephen Lynch fitz Dominick was returning from an extended trading voyage in Spain. He set out with a full cargo, probably of hides, wool, and fish, which he hoped to trade for wine and iron with Spanish merchants. As he approached Galway port he was surprised to see a church and buildings almost completed on Fort Hill (originally called St Augustine’s Hill), a prominent site visible from both the town and the sea. They were not there when he left.

The final auction of 2016 for Galway auctioneer O’Donnellan & Joyce is set to take place tomorrow, December 16. The hammer is set to fall 40 times in the company's Wild Atlantic Way Christmas auction, commencing at 2pm at the Harbour Hotel, New Dock Road, Galway.